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If you're into this, you may enjoy reading about Joan Ginther, a statistician and multiple lottery winner. Her Wikipedia article is sadly short [0], but there
by WorkerBee28474 2y ago
If you're into this, you may enjoy reading about Joan Ginther, a statistician and multiple lottery winner.
Her Wikipedia article is sadly short [0], but there are a number of other sadly short and poorly sourced articles around the web to augment it.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_R._Ginther https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_R._Ginther
- ceejayoz 2y agoThere's also a film about a similar scenario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%26_Marge_Go_Large https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_%26_Marge_Go_Large (based on https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/ https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winner...)
- imajoredinecon 2y agoGoogle turned up this Harper’s feature which is pretty good: https://courses.washington.edu/psy315/pdf/HarpersMagazine_Luckiest_Woman_on_Earth.pdf https://courses.washington.edu/psy315/pdf/HarpersMagazine_Lu...
- jamesfinlayson 2y agoLong article but the likeliest scenario in the article is that the has studied the printing sheet location and sales time distribution of winning tickets to work out when they will appear on the market, then buys up all the newly issued scratchies from compliant shop owners.
- stavros 2y agoThis doesn't say anything about how she did it, was it just luck or was there some method?